Cassells calls on government to provide extra funding to county councils to help rural areas impacted by snow

By LMFM News Team

03 March 2018

While efforts to clear the snowfall from Storm Emma continues one local TD has called for the government to provide additional funding to councils so that they can extend their help beyond main urban areas to all of the impacted isolated rural areas in Meath and Louth.

Deputy Shane Cassells says local authorities have not been provided with enough financial support to help people in all parts of the county especially in rural areas, which have experienced significant snow drift.

The Fianna Fail spokesperson for local government told LMFM News that he will put these questions to Department of Local Government officials when they appear before him at the Public Accounts Committee next Thursday.